Haywood Henry

Haywood Henry (actually Frank Haywood Henry , born January 10, 1913 in Birmingham (Alabama) ; † September 15, 1994 in Bronx , New York City ) was an American jazz musician ( alto and baritone saxophone , clarinet , also flute ) who also emerged as a studio musician in rhythm 'n' blues .

Live and act

Henry received a tenor saxophone as a present from his sister, who was an organist and pianist in Birmingham . He attended Alabama State Teachers College and played from 1930 with the Bama Street Collegians , which included Dud Bascomb and Erskine Hawkins (1931-1932). In 1934 he moved to New York City . For a tour in 1935 he went back to the Collegians , who traded as the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra ; he stayed there until the mid-1950s. Between 1940 and 1942 he was occasionally active as a substitute for Harry Carney in the Duke Ellington Orchestra . He also worked with Tiny Grimes , Julian Dash (1951). From 1957 to 1958 he was a member of the Fletcher Henderson Reunion Band led by Rex Stewart ; in the late 1950s and early 1960s he played with Reuben Phillips' band at the Apollo Theater . As a session musician, he played (often with Mickey Baker ) on over a thousand rock & roll records; from the early 1960s he played with Wilbur DeParis , Max Kaminsky , Snub Mosley , Louis Metcalf , Earl Hines (1969–1971) and was employed as a musician on Broadway shows such as Ain't Misbehavin . From 1972 to 1980 he played with Sy Oliver and the New York Jazz Repertory Company , with whom he also toured in the Eastern Bloc. Henry recorded with the Erskine Hawkins Reunion Band in 1971 and was active with the Duke's Men and the Harlem Jazz & Blues Band until the early 1990s (touring Denmark). In 1955 he took under his own name u. a. with Everett Barksdale and Bobby Donaldson . Henry recorded an album under his own name for Davis Records (1957), in the early 1960s for Strand and in 1983 for Uptown . In 1978 he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame .

As a studio musician, he worked on recordings a. a. by Skeeter Best , James Brown , Ruth Brown , Ray Charles , King Curtis , Varetta Dillard (1953), Ella Fitzgerald , Eddie Harris , Screamin 'Jay Hawkins , Billie Holiday (1951), Buddy Johnson (1956), Al King , Warren Lucky , Big Maybelle ( The Okeh Sessions , 1955), Amos Milburn , Nina Simone , Rex Stewart (1958), Sam "The Man" Taylor ( Swingstation , 1955), Clark Terry , The Treniers , Big Joe Turner and Jimmy Witherspoon with. He was also involved as a musician on the score for the Spike Lee films School Daze and Mo 'Better Blues .

Lexical entry

• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .

Web links

• Scott Yanow : Haywood Henry at Allmusic (English)
• Haywood Henry at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bielefeld catalog, 1988
2. ↑ Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame Inductees ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Bruce Bastin: The Melody Man: Joe Davis and the New York Music Scene, 1916-1978 , p. 266
4. ↑ Review of Dave Nathan's album Swingstation at Allmusic (English)